SIDDS - Commodore 64 Emulator Coming To DS

[wraggster]

Alekmaul (http://www.portabledev.com/pages/posts/oh-what-s-that-o_o556.php) has posted a screenshot on his site thats sure to get a lot of you wanting for more:

http://www.portabledev.com/media/DS/SidDS/sidds_wip20080328.png


Go, a small news emulation, it was long ^ ^.
I am currently working on a new emulator. A Commodore 64 emulator, the mythical machine that everybody wanted to have my time.
In short, you would soon SIDDS news of the next emulator Available on this site ^ ^
Ps: While this is not the buzz it

awesome news cant wait :), while we wait what C64 games did you like most, for me it was international soccer :)

[mr game porter]

holy crap!! i want!!

[urherenow]

"mythical machine " ?

obviously he doesn't know what "myth" means

anyway, I like c64 myself, so :thumbup:

[Category]

"mythical machine " ?

obviously he doesn't know what "myth" means

anyway, I like c64 myself, so :thumbup:

I think the "mythical machine" part was bad machine translation - the grammar is VERY babelfish.

But SUPER excited for this - does anyone else remember "Little Computer People"? Can't wait to have that in my pocket again!

[Sir_Voe]

This looks nice. Hope the sound emulation is a little better than Frodo, as one of my favorite games (Impossible Mission) just isn't the same without the voices.

[wraggster]

i personally hope the gui loads games in an easy way, i remember the days of c64 and those damn tapes :)

[Category]

LOAD 8,1,1,1

*waits half an hour, looking at a screen that could send an epileptic to hospital*



Those were the days!

[Hawq]

LOAD 8,1,1,1

*waits half an hour, looking at a screen that could send an epileptic to hospital*



Those were the days!Coulda been worse, the Speccy killed your ears as well as making you fall down & turn blue

[robman84]

Cool. Hope it can take the results of FrodoDS to the next level.

Mmm, Spindizzy. Wizball. Paradroid. Ghosts and Goblins. Uridium. Nebulus.

Got versions of most of these on other emus, but the C64 versions rocked.

[paul3100]

I think it should be made like the existing zx spectrum emulators which does auto load those games.

I usually get exited about new emulators on the DS and this is no exception except that the zx spectrum and commadore 64 are very alike and have practically the same games and graphics.

So unless you were a commadore fan when you were younger then the existing speccy emulator does it all.

paul

[hollowuk]

I think it should be made like the existing zx spectrum emulators which does auto load those games.

I usually get exited about new emulators on the DS and this is no exception except that the zx spectrum and commadore 64 are very alike and have practically the same games and graphics.

So unless you were a commadore fan when you were younger then the existing speccy emulator does it all.

paul

LOL, sorry if my first and only post is a semi-flame, but you are clueless.
Same Graphics????????
The spectrum couldn't even scroll properly and dont get me started on the puke-fest that was speccy colour.

[iceman100]

So far this look years better than that other crap they made.

[spinal_cord]

I really home creatures2 and mayhem in monsterland work with this emu, they don't with frodo.

[Akoi Meexx]

I remember coding on a VIC-20 when I was little. That is DEFINITELY a blast to see, I hope it's better built than Frodo, never did like how that one ran.

[cutterjohn]

I dunno. It'd be nice to have a usefully emulated machine that could play Ultima I - VI, and a bunch of other RPGs that NEVER came out for European/Japanese 8bit micros AFAIK.

Of course, I'd rather have a better Apple //e / IIGS emulator...

[SmashinGit]

Can't wait for this, :D I hope IK+ works

[Shtroodle]

Me neither. I hope Wasteland works :)

[crookedmouth]

I love alekmaul but he must clone himself so he can update his multitude of fantastic emulators. :)
The Apple2 and Atari800 are also very important IMHO.

[turnerl]

I think it should be made like the existing zx spectrum emulators which does auto load those games.

I usually get exited about new emulators on the DS and this is no exception except that the zx spectrum and commadore 64 are very alike and have practically the same games and graphics.

So unless you were a commadore fan when you were younger then the existing speccy emulator does it all.

paul

Nothing alike (except they are both 8bit and had the same games)

C64 different best altogether, MUCH better graphics and the BEST sound for the time. You cant even compare the specturm to the c64.

[turnerl]

I think it should be made like the existing zx spectrum emulators which does auto load those games.

I usually get exited about new emulators on the DS and this is no exception except that the zx spectrum and commadore 64 are very alike and have practically the same games and graphics.

So unless you were a commadore fan when you were younger then the existing speccy emulator does it all.

paul


Nothing alike (except they are both 8bit and had alot of the same games)

C64 different best altogether, MUCH better graphics and the BEST sound for the time. You cant even compare the specturm to the c64.

[crookedmouth]

I owned a C64 and still do today. So of course it's one of my favorites, but I must admit that the Spectrum seems to have better sprite handling. It could handle large sprites with smooth movement.
As to games being the same there were tons more RPG and strategy games for the C64.If anything the C64 had more similar games with the Apple2 and Atari800.

[paul3100]

LOL, sorry if my first and only post is a semi-flame, but you are clueless.
Same Graphics????????
The spectrum couldn't even scroll properly and dont get me started on the puke-fest that was speccy colour.

Lol mate i ain't going to flame you as we are entitled to our own opinions, guess i just loved the zx spectrum as thats what i owned (zx81/48k+/128+2) .

I always thought the commadore and amstrad were not as good for graphics but thats just cause i was used to the speccy.

Anyway a new commadore emulator will be good :thumbup:

paul

[XDelusion]

I hope this pans out! A full speed C64 emu would be grand, especially if he could incorporate Paddle support via touch screen so that programs like Prophet 64 and what not are fully use able!

[R4mbo]

The Interface looks totally awesome!!!!
Autoload should only be optional, another cool feature is that you can code "Basic" on it, directly in the OS, like

10 PRINT "BLA"
20 a=a+1
30 PRINT "a"
40 GOTO 10

This should have to work too ofcourse!!!

[spinal_cord]

LOL, sorry if my first and only post is a semi-flame, but you are clueless.
Same Graphics????????
The spectrum couldn't even scroll properly and dont get me started on the puke-fest that was speccy colour.

Someone show me some speccy gfx as good as these...
http://www.studiostyle.sk/dmagic/bopc2/pic/picp99_1.gifhttp://www.studiostyle.sk/dmagic/bopc2/pic/picflag2000_2.gif
http://www.studiostyle.sk/dmagic/bopc2/pic/piccon99_1.gifhttp://www.studiostyle.sk/dmagic/bopc2/pic/picp99_5.gif

[paul3100]

Someone show me some speccy gfx as good as these...

You make a good point my friend, all i was meaning was that i preferred the speccy as its what i owned and didn't like the graphics as much on other systems of its time such as the C64 and amstrad 464.

I still don't lol but its just what i am used to and i am sure the average user of any of these early 8 bit machines wouldn't notice much difference on MOST games.

Anyway thats the end of quotes and stuff cause i get it already OK lol, the C64 is best........... la de la

paul

[paul3100]

You make a good point my friend, all i was meaning was that i preferred the speccy as its what i owned and didn't like the graphics as much on other systems of its time such as the C64 and amstrad 464.

I still don't lol but its just what i am used to and i am sure the average user of any of these early 8 bit machines wouldn't notice much difference on MOST games.

Anyway thats the end of quotes and stuff cause i get it already OK lol, the C64 is best........... la de la

paul

PS: what game is that above?

[turnerl]

is that flashgordon (matertronics) or just a scene demo maybe

[spinal_cord]

Its just a demo, would have been good if people figured out all those tricks in the 80's though, might have game the 8bits a little extra life.

[urherenow]

it would be impossible to make an entire game with that quality. I bet those 4 shots took up a whole damn floppy...

anyway, I haven't paid much attention to the DS scene... I take it someone ported frodo as well?

I dunno why people bother actually. I've never seen a better emulator than vice. It's open source and has been ported to many different systems (including PSP). I couldn't port it myself, I'm just saying.. why port stuff that was never very good in the first place? I've found nothing that fails to run on any of the vice emulators.

[spinal_cord]

it would be impossible to make an entire game with that quality. I bet those 4 shots took up a whole damn floppy...

anyway, I haven't paid much attention to the DS scene... I take it someone ported frodo as well?

I dunno why people bother actually. I've never seen a better emulator than vice. It's open source and has been ported to many different systems (including PSP). I couldn't port it myself, I'm just saying.. why port stuff that was never very good in the first place? I've found nothing that fails to run on any of the vice emulators.

Vice takes up way to much resources to work on something as limited as the ds, you'd be really lucky to get it working on a similar spec pc. That's why frodo gets ported to other systems first, the more compatible an emulator is, the more resources it needs to do its job.

[cutterjohn]

Nothing alike (except they are both 8bit and had the same games)

C64 different best altogether, MUCH better graphics and the BEST sound for the time. You cant even compare the specturm to the c64.Wrong. The Ataris could display up to 128 colors in several graphics modes. Alternate reality was one of the games to utilize this feature, although I don't recall which graphics mode it was using.

The 8bit Atari had several early custom chips, and a ~1.8MHz 6502. Most of the same group also designed the Amiga, hence the custom chips for the Amiga, meanwhile the "new" Atari got the cheapasses from Commodore hence the cheap STs initially.

[spinal_cord]

Wrong. The Ataris could display up to 128 colors in several graphics modes. Alternate reality was one of the games to utilize this feature, although I don't recall which graphics mode it was using.

The 8bit Atari had several early custom chips, and a ~1.8MHz 6502. Most of the same group also designed the Amiga, hence the custom chips for the Amiga, meanwhile the "new" Atari got the cheapasses from Commodore hence the cheap STs initially.

Hang on, turnerl said "You cant even compare the specturm to the c64." then you (cutterjohn) siad "Wrong. The Ataris could display up to 128 colors in several graphics modes.". Who said anything about Atari? Are you saying spectrum and commodore were comparable because Atari was higher spec? how does that work?

[turnerl]

LOL yeah that is a funny reply haha.

[crookedmouth]

Wrong. The Ataris could display up to 128 colors in several graphics modes. Alternate reality was one of the games to utilize this feature, although I don't recall which graphics mode it was using.

The 8bit Atari had several early custom chips, and a ~1.8MHz 6502. Most of the same group also designed the Amiga, hence the custom chips for the Amiga, meanwhile the "new" Atari got the cheapasses from Commodore hence the cheap STs initially.

Jay Miner was the designer of the Atari 2600,Atari 400/800 and Ultimately the Amiga. He always named his chips after women apparently.

The people who created the C64 had nothing to do with the Atari ST, unless you count Jack Tramiel who started Commodore then bought Atari in 1984 , almost got the amiga then quickly made the ST in retaliation.

[cutterjohn]

Tramiel also brought over most of the useful Commodore engineering staff with him, and according to what I've read they already had the ST designed, but found the contract with Amiga with the buyout clause, which didn't work out since Commodore came in and bailed them out, then bought them later. Apparently bad blood between Tramiel and whoever took over Commodore after he bought Atari.

Atari never made any real decent machines until they added the TTs, and finally the Falcon but it was really to late by then. The STes were reasonable as well, but not what you would expect from Atari if you didn't know about what was essentially and essential staff swap between commodore and atari...

(Atari also did a pretty good job with the Jaguar, but as usual couldn't market it...)

[robman84]

Digging through old threads. Anyone know of any progress on this emu? I got very excited at the time!

[Sir_Voe]

Yeah, what ever happened to this?

[crookedmouth]

I'm probably going to get this locked but What happened to alekmaul? Hope he's alright and just taking a long break. Lord knows he's been prolific with his emulators.
I emailed him a couple times way back but he didn't reply.

[Sir_Voe]

I'm probably going to get this locked but What happened to alekmaul? Hope he's alright and just taking a long break. Lord knows he's been prolific with his emulators.
I emailed him a couple times way back but he didn't reply.

last I heard (about a month ago), he's working on getting Black Tiger running on the DS.

[crookedmouth]

Thanks for the info, Black Tiger will be cool. I wonder if he abandoned sidds.

[luc95470]

Hello,

I have a question about the size of the C64 screen on DS.
Can you add a mode with a correct ratio (320/200) ?

[mattsaysfooey]

Yeah keep us posted. ty in advance.

[XDelusion]

Looking forward to it! Hope it does full speed!